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1 Diamond Overcall:

1 Major to 4 Major:

WS 2 #32
WS 10 #2
WS 11 #9

1NT with two doubletons:

Lesson
WS 8 #2

1NT with a 5-card suit:

1NT with a 5-card major:

WS 8 #3

1NT with 18 points:

1NT with a singleton ace:

1NT to 3NT:

WS 2 #29

1NT behind 1NT Opener:

WS 6 #2

1NT Overcall:

123, Rule of:

2, Rule of:

2 suited:

WS 6 #5
WS 7 #7, #8, #9

2NT Opening:

WS 2 #34
WS 8 #7

2NT Opening over Weak Two:

WS 6 #4
WS 8 #5

3NT Over Partner's Preempt:

WS 3 #34

3NT Over Opponent's Preempt:

WS 12 #34

4 Opening:

WS 7 #4

4321 Point System:

4333:

WS 8 #4
WS 9 #3
WS 11 #4
161

4-4 Fit Not 5-3 Fit:

WS 2 #35

4NT:

4NT, When it is NOT Blackwood (Quantitative):

167

4NT, Roman Keycard:

Lesson

110

111

118

4NT, Regular Blackwood:

4NT, When Blackwood is Not Useful

157

4NT, Three-Suited Takeout:

130

5NT, King Ask Showing all keycards:

5-4 in majors over 1NT:

WS 1 #3
WS 3 #36
WS 4 #32

5-5 in majors over 1NT:

WS 4 #36
WS 6 #9
WS 12 #36

5 Clubs 4 Diamond Openings:

Lesson
WS 9 #6

6-4 in majors over 1NT:

WS 5 #29

8-card suit:

8 Ever, Nine Never:

Lesson

11, Rule of:

17, Rule of:

18 to 19 Notrump:

WS 5 #28

20, Rule of:

22, Rule of:

Lesson
8
103

Avoidances (Keeping the danger hand off lead):

Balancing (Keeping the Bidding Open):

Better Minor Openings:

Lesson
WS 1
35
45
46
47
72

Bidding:

Bidding Quiz

Bidding Ladder:

Blackwood:

Book:

Breaks:

Chances 1
Chances 2
Chances 3
Chances 4
Rainy Day
138
139

Breaking 3-2:

Breaking 3-3:

Breaking 5-2:

Broken Sequence:

Bust:

Chances:

Chances 1
Chances 2
Chances 3
Chances 4
Rainy Day
138
139

Check Back Stayman:

Lesson

Claiming:

Clubs Not Lead Directive:

Combinations:

Combos
Combos 2
8 Ever 9 Never

Competition:

WS 5 #30
149

Computer Dealt Hands:

Conversion:

Count:

Cover Cards:

Covering:

When to Cover

Crashing Honours:

Cross Ruff:

Cuebids:

Lesson

Cuebids: Control Showing (1st and 2nd round controls):

Cuebids: Direct Cuebid:

Lesson

116

117

Cuebids: Overcall Cuebid:

Cuebids: Slam:

WS 3 #35

119

Cuebids: Stayman:

100

101

160

Cuebids: Strength Showing:

Cuebids: Support Showing:

Cuebids: After Partner's Takeout Double:

Cuebids: Tell me More Partner:

Cuebids: Western:

Danger Hand:

Declarer:

122
Notrump Declarer Play
Suit Declarer Play
Advanced Declarer Play
Misc. Declarer Play

Combos
Combos 2
8 Ever 9 Never
Discovery Play
Safety Play
Chances 1
Chances 2
Chances 3

Chances 4
Rainy Day
WS 6 #3

Declaring to protect Kings:

Defense:

Defensive Tips
Defense Example
The Defensive Hold-up

Defensive Holdups:

The Defensive Hold-up

Director:

Common Director Calls

Discovery Play:

Lesson

Distribution:

Distributional Echoes:

DONT (Disturbing Opponent's Notrump):

Double Fit:

Doubles:

Lesson
WS 10 #1, #2
80
81
82
83
84
86
87
88
89
90
103
104
105

Double: Lead Direction:

Ducking (Holding Up):

Dummy, The:

Dummy Reversal:

Dummy Whist:

Eight Ever Nine Never:

Elimination (Stripping the Hand):

End Play:

Entry:

Equal Level Correction:

Evaluation:

Hand Eval 1
Hand Eval 2

Examples:

WS 1
WS 2
WS 3
WS 4
WS 5
WS 6
WS 7
WS 8
WS 9
WS 10
WS 11
WS 12

WS 13
WS 14
WS 15

Exit Cards:

Fast Arrival:

Favourable Placement of Points:

Finesse:

Finesse: Intrafinesse:

Five Card Major Openings:

Five Clubs and Four Diamonds Openings:

Forcing:

Forcing?

Forcing Game or Defense:

Forcing Pass:

Four-Four Major Fit:

Fourth Best:

Lesson

Frozen:

Future of a lead:

Game:

Game Both Ways:

WS 4 #29
WS 9 #8

Game Points:

Game Points (Opponents Bid):

Gerber:

WS 3 #32
WS 4 #37
WS 12 #32
19
20
120

Golden Fit:

Grand Slam:

Helping Declarer:

High Card Points, HCP's:

Higher Preempts:

WS 7 #4
110
111
112
113
114
115

Holdups:

The Defensive Hold-up
1
59
62
63
112
113
122
127

Honour:

Interference:

1NT Interference
25
75
76
77
78
79
97
98
99
100
101
102
103

Interior Sequence Leads:

Intrafinesse:

Inverted Minors:

Lesson
WS 1
30
38
40
41
141
142
143
144

Game Forcing:

144

Invitational:

WS 3 #33

WS 4 #33, #34

WS 5 #35

WS 6 #7

WS 9 #7

WS 12 #33

147

Weak:

WS 4 #35

WS 5 #35

149

In Competition:

WS 7 #6

Inviting When Partner Opens 1NT:

Invitational Cuebid:

WS 10 #7, #8, #9
94

Invitational in a Minor Over 1NT:

WS 4 #30
WS 5 #31
WS 12 #30
17
165

Jacoby Two Notrump:

Lesson
WS 11 #3
137

Jacoby Transfers:

Transfers
Stayman & Transfer Quiz
WS 1
157

Jump Shift:

Keycards:

Keycard Blackwood:

Lesson
5
19
110
111
118

KJBC (kootenay Jewel Bridge Club):

Ladder:

Landy:

Law of Restricted Choice:

Lesson

Leads:

Lead Reference

Intro to Leads

Leads

4th Best

Top of Nothing

WS 10 #4, #5

100

102

103

104

105

Leads Against 3NT:

165

168

Lead Direction:

133

164

Lead Direction Double:

WS 12 #31

156

164

Lead Don'ts:

133

Lead with no Entries:

WS 10 #6

Lead Protection:

Lead of a Small Card:

Lead of the Top of Nothing:

120

Lead's Future:

127

Lead: Singleton:

163

Lead: Doubleton:

162

Lead: Opponent's Short Suit:

157

Lead with few points:

159

Lead Weaker Major:

134

Lead: Partner's Suit:

171

Lead: When not to lead Partner's Suit:

166

172

Leads of Aces in Partner's Suit:

133

Leads Against a Slam:

158

Leads Against a Grand:

169

Length Points:

WS 12 #30

134

Limit Raise:

33
37
132
134
WS 2 #36
WS 11 #5, #7

Long Trump Hand Ruffs:

Loser on Loser:

Losers:

Majors:

Major Limit Raise:

Major Raise- Simple:

WS 11 #9

Major Raise- Strong:

WS 10 #1

Major Raise- Weak:

WS 2 #32
WS 10 #2

Michael's Cuebid:

Lesson
153

Minisplinters:

Minors:

Minor Limit Raise:

Minor Suit Transfer:

WS 2 #30
WS 3 #30
164

Misfits:

WS 7 #5
48
61
87
90
107
113

Natural Lead:

Negative Doubles:

Nelson Bridge Club:

New Minor Forcing:

Lesson

New Suit at the Two-Level forcing:

New Suit at the Two-Level Nonforcing:

Notrump:

1 NT
Better Minor Lesson
Stayman
Transfers
Stayman & Transfer Quiz
1NT Interference

3C or 3D over 1NT
3NT or 4H
WS 1
WS 14
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13

Notrump with two doubletons:

WS 8-#2
164
169

Notrump with a 5-card suit:

Notrump with 5 card major:

WS 8-#3

Notrump with a singleton ace:

Notrump: Invitational in a Minor:

Notrump: Minor Suit Transfer:

Notrump Declarer Play:

Notrump Declarer Play

Notrump Responding Ranges:

Notrump With a Void:

Notrump With an unstopped Doubleton:

Notrump: Singleton in Partner's Suit:

Numbers:

Rules: By The Numbers

Odds:

Chances 1
Chances 2
Chances 3
Chances 4
Rainy Day
138
139

Ogust:

WS 7 #3

One Diamond Overcall:

One Notrump Overcall:

One Notrump Response:

Opener's Ranges:

Opening Hand:

Opening Leads:

Lead Reference

Opening with Five Clubs and Four Diamonds:

Overcalls:

Overcall Cuebid:

Passes:

Penalty Conversion:

Penalty Doubles:

Percentages:

Chances 1
Chances 2
Chances 3
Chances 4
Rainy Day
138
139

Plan Ahead:

Playable Suit:

Points, High Cards:

Points, Length:

Points for Game:

Points for Game (Opponents Bid):

Positive Response to two clubs:

WS 1
57
58
163

Pre-empts:

Lesson
WS 1
WS 12 #34

Weak Two's:

Lesson

WS 1 #9, #14

WS 7 #1, #2 #3

162

Higher:

WS 7 #4

110

111

112

113

114

115

Rule of Thumb:

130

Too Strong to Preempt:

WS 5 #32

142

163

Principles:

Principle of Fast Arrival:

144

Principle of the Forcing Pass:

Principle of the Fourth Suit:

Principle of Restricted Choice:

Lesson

Probabilities:

Chances 1
Chances 2
Chances 3
Chances 4
Rainy Day
138
139

Quackish:

WS 9 #3

Quantitative:

Queen Ask (with Keycard Blackwood):

Ranges:

Rebids:

Rebid Problem:

Rectify the Count:

Redoubles:

Redouble a Lead-Direct Double:

Re-evaluation:

Responding Ranges:

Response:

Lesson
131
136
150

Responses to One Notrump:

Restricted Choice:

Lesson

Reverse:

Lesson
Better Minor Lesson
WS 1 #16,#17
WS 9 #2
45
46
47
48
150
158
169

Roman Hand (4441):

Roman Keycard Blackwood:

Lesson
5
19
110
111
118

RONF:

Lesson
WS 7 #2

Ruffing Finesse:

Ruffing in the Short or Long Trump Hand:

Ruffing Suit Preference:

Ruffing When 4-3:

Rules:

Rules: By The Numbers

Rules of Thumb:

110

Rule of 123:

110

115

130

Rule of Two:

Rule of 8 Ever, Nine Never:

Lesson

Rule of Eleven:

Rule of Seventeen:

162

Rule of Twenty:

106

127

Rule of Twenty-Two:

Lesson

103

Sacrifice or Save:

Safe Lead:

Safety Play:

Lesson
19
35
59
67

Save or Sacrifice:

Second Suit Limit Raise:

WS 11

Shape of a Takeout Double:

WS 10 #2

Short Hand Ruffs:

Shortness Points:

Lesson
134

Signaling:

Lesson
141
153

Simple Response:

Lesson
131
136
150

Slams:

WS 1 #10,13
WS 2 #37
WS 3 #35, #37
WS 4 #37
WS 9 #1
WS 12 #37
19
20
21
22
47

Slam With 27 Points and a Stiff:

Lesson
137
140

Sluff and a Ruff:

Soft Values:

SOS Redoubles:

Splinters:

Lesson
54
129
137
140

Squeeze Play:

Standard American:

Std Am

Stayman:

Stayman
Stayman & Transfer Quiz
WS 1
WS 4 #31
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8

Stayman with 4333:

WS 11 #4

Stopper:

WS 8 #2
122

Stoppers to Set Up a Suit:

Stripping the Hand (Elimination):

Strong Raise:

Suit Declarer Play:

Lesson

Suit Length:

Lesson

Suit Preference on a Ruff:

Superacceptance:

WS 3 #29
WS 12 #29
22
23

Suits:

Swallowing Points:

Takeout Doubles:

WS 10 #1, #2
128
75
76
77
114
115

Takeout Bid of 4NT:

Tapping or Forcing Declarer:

Temporizing:

Texas Transfers:

WS 1
14
24
27

Texas Transfers in Competition:

WS 8 #8

Third Seat Opener:

Top and Other Cuebid:

Lesson
153

Top of Nothing:

Lesson
WS 7 #8

Trail Duplicate Bridge Club (TDBC):

Transfers:

Transfers
Stayman & Transfer Quiz
WS 1 #4
WS 5 #33, #34, #36
WS 6 #1, #6
124
10
11

Transfer Hand grows:

WS 5 #36
WS 8 #6

Transfer Then New Suit:

WS 8 #9

Transfer Then Two Notrump:

WS 6 #8

Transportation:

Trap Pass:

Trash Stayman:

WS 1 #6
8

Trick:

Trick One Play:

Lesson

Trick's Value:

Tricks Not Points:

Lesson
141

Trump:

Two Clubs:

WS 1 #13,#15
55
56
57
58
59
60
61

Two Level, New Suit response does not show 10+ points:

Two Notrump:

WS 1 #18
129
27
28
29

Two-Suited Bids:

Lesson
69
70
71
116
117

Unblock:

Unstopped Doubleton:

WS 1
164

Unusual:

Lesson
WS 7 #7

Unusual versus Unusual:

Lesson

Uppercut:

Up the line:

Vulnerability, Favourable:

Waiting 2D (Goes with a 2C opening):

Warfield Duplicate Bridge Club (See KJBC)

Wasted Points:

Weak Hands:

Weak Two's:

Lesson
WS 1 #9, #14
WS 7 #1, #2 #3
61
62
63
64
65
66
162

Weak Two's: Do Not Open:

Weak Two's: Rule of Seventeen:

Western Cuebid:

Whist:

Workshops:

WS 1
WS 2
WS 3
WS 4
WS 5
WS 6
WS 7
WS 8
WS 9
WS 10
WS 11
WS 12

WS 13
WS 14
WS 15

Series 1.Suit Declarer Play
Series 2. Notrump Declarer Play

Series 3. Defensive Techniques
Series 4. Competitive Bidding